Description : Q. What are the important metabolic events taking place in cytoplasm?
Last Answer : A. Glycolysis (Embden-Meyerhof pathway), HMP shunt pathway, glycogen metabolism, Fatty acid synthesis, Synthesis of nucleotides, Degradation of amino acids
Description : Which one of the following statements is fully correct? (A) Hormones are needed in the diet (B) Hormones can be elaborated only by endocrine glands (C) All the hormones enter the ... (D) Hormones are substance synthesized in the body in small quantities and control and regulate metabolic events
Last Answer : Answer : D
Description : Cytochrome P450 is: a. involves in phase I metabolic reactions b. found in lysosomes c. found in hepatocytes d. found in mitochondria
Last Answer : found in hepatocytes
Description : Metabolic water is the water generated in all cell of the body by a. ribosome b. mitochondria c. bodies d. centrosome
Last Answer : mitochondria
Description : The site of enzymes directing the metabolic oxidation (respiration), ATP synthesis and considered as power house of cell are (A) Lysosomes (B) Microsomes (C) Mitochondria (D) Golgi apparatus
Last Answer : (C) Mitochondria
Description : What best describes the events that take place within the mitochondria membrane?
Last Answer : What is the answer ?
Description : A component of the respiratory chain in mitochondria is (A) Coenzyme Q (B) Coenzyme A (C) Acetyl coenzyme (D) Coenzyme containing thiamin
Last Answer : Answer : A
Description : Q. What is the function of mitochondria?
Last Answer : A. Generation of ATP
Description : Which one of the following aspects is an exclusive characteristic of living things? (a) Isolated metabolic reactions occur in vitro (b) Increase in mass from inside only (c) Perception of events ... memory. (d) Increase in mass by accumulation of material both on surface as well as internally
Last Answer : (d) Increase in mass by accumulation of material both on surface as well as internally.
Description : (i)Explain the events taking place at the time of fertilisation of an ovum in a human female. (ii)Trace the development of the zygote up to its implantation in the uterus. (iii)Name and draw a labelled sectional view of the embryonic stage that gets implanted. -Biology
Last Answer : (i)In humans, the fertilisation of ovum takes place in ampullary-isthmic junction of Fallopian tube. The events that occur during the process of fertilisation are: (a) The sperm reaches the ... endometrium of the uterus. This is called implantation.(iii) Blastocyst stage implants in the uterus.
Description : Are people in heaven able to see the events taking place on earth?
Last Answer : Yes they can as in heaven you can see anything you want to see but heaven is so nice to a point I Doubt you will even want to think about or see anything about this life.
Description : Which of the following features are present in blood chemistry in uncompensated metabolic alkalosis except? (A) Increased pH (B) Increased bicarbonate (C) Normal chloride (D) Normal pCO2
Description : Metabolic alkalosis can occur in (A) Severe diarrhoea (B) Renal failure (C) Recurrent vomiting (D) Excessive use of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
Last Answer : Answer : C
Description : Salicylate poisoning can cause (A) Respiratory acidosis (B) Metabolic acidosis with normal anion gap (C) Metabolic acidosis with increased anion gap (D) Metabolic alkalosis
Description : Anion gap is increased in (A) Renal tubular acidosis (B) Metabolic acidosis resulting from diarrhoea (C) Metabolic acidosis resulting from intestinal obstruction (D) Diabetic ketoacidosis
Last Answer : Answer : B
Description : Anion gap is normal in (A) Hyperchloraemic metabolic acidosis (B) Diabetic ketoacidosis (C) Lactic acidosis (D) Uraemic acidosis
Description : The water produced during metabolic reactions in an adult is about (A) 100 ml/day (B) 300 ml/day (C) 500 ml/day (D) 700 ml/day
Description : Hypercholremia is associated with (A) Hyponatremia (B) Hypernatremia (C) Metabolic alkalosis(D) Respiratory acidosis
Description : In humans, the principal metabolic product of pyrimidines is (A) Uric acid (B) Allantoin (C) Hypoxanthine (D) β-alanine
Description : The probable metabolic defect in gents is (A) A defect in excretion of uric acid by kidney (B) An overproduction of pyrimidines (C) An overproduction of uric acid (D) Rise in calcium leading to deposition of calcium urate
Description : Gout is a metabolic disorder of catabolism of (A) Pyrimidine (B) Purine (C) Alanine (D) Phenylalanine
Description : Salicylate poisoning in early stages causes (A) Metabolic acidosis (B) Respiratory acidosis (C) Metabolic alkalosis (D) Respiratory alkalosis
Description : Morphine poisoning causes (A) Metabolic acidosis (B) Respiratory acidosis (C) Metabolic alkalosis (D) Respiratory alkalosis
Description : Metabolic alkalosis occurs (A) As consequence of high intestinal obstruction (B) In central nervous system disease (C) In diarrhoea (D) In colitis
Description : Metabolic acidosis is caused in (A) Pneumonia (B) Prolonged starvation (C) Intestinal obstruction (D) Bulbar polio
Description : Metabolic acidosis is caused in (A) Uncontrolled diabetes with ketosis (B) Pneumonia (C) Intestinal Obstruction (D) Hepatic coma
Description : Meningitis and encephalitis cause (A) Metabolic alkalosis (B) Respiratory alkalosis (C) Metabolic acidosis (D) Respiratory acidosis
Description : Total CO2 is increased in (A) Respiratory acidosis (B) Metabolic alkalosis (C) Both respiratory acidosis and metabolic alkalosis (D) Respiratory alkalosis
Description : Plasma bicarbonate is increased in (A) Respiratory alkalosis (B) Metabolic alkalosis (C) Respiratory acidosis (D) Metabolic acidosis
Description : Plasma bicarbonate is decreased in (A) Respiratory alkalosis (B) Respiratory acidosis (C) Metabolic alkalosis (D) Metabolic acidosis
Description : The basal metabolic rate (B.M.R.) is measurement of (A) Energy expenditure during sleep (B) Energy expenditure after 100 m walk (C) Energy expenditure after a meal (D) Energy expenditure under certain basal (Standard) conditions
Description : The energy required to start an enzymatic reaction is called (A) Chemical energy (B) Metabolic energy (C) Activation energy (D) Potential energy
Description : A metabolic pathways is a (A) Route taken by chemicals (B) Sequence of enzyme facilitated chemical reactions (C) Route taken by an enzyme from one reaction to another (D) Sequence of origin of organic molecules
Description : In most metabolic pathways, all needed enzymes are arranged together in a multienzyme complex within a (A) Solution of ATP (B) Membrane (C) Quanternary protein (D) Coenzyme
Description : Which one of the following statements is not characteristic of allosteric enzymes? (A) They frequently catalyze a committed step early in a metabolic pathway (B) They are often composed of subunits (C) They follow Michaelis-Menten kinetics (D) They frequently show cooperativity for substrate binding
Description : In the biosynthesis of cholesterol, the step which controls the rate and locus of metabolic regulation is (A) Geranyl pyrophosphate farnesyl pyrophosphate (B) Squalene → lanosterol (C) HMG CoA → mevalonate (D) Lanosterol → 1, 4-desmethyl lanosterol
Description : Most major metabolic pathways are considered mainly either anabolic or catabolic. Which of the following pathway is most correctly considered to be amphibolic? (A) Citric acid cycle (B) Gluconeogenesis (C) Lipolysis (D) Glycolysis
Description : BMR (Basal Metabolic rate) is elevated in (A) Hyper thyroidism (B) Under nutrition (C) Starvation (D) Hypothyroidism
Description : The essential amino acids (A) must be supplied in the diet because the organism has lost the capacity to aminate the corresponding ketoacids (B) must be supplied in the diet because the ... amino acids which cannot be synthesized by the organism at a rate adequate to meet metabolic requirements
Description : Under what condition to basal metabolic rate goes up? (A) Cold environment (B) Hot environment (C) Intake of base forming foods (D) Hypothyroidism
Description : Main metabolic end product of cholesterol: (A) Coprosterol (B) 5-pregnenolone (C) Bile acid (D) Glycine
Description : The ability of liver to remove a dye like BSP from the blood suggests a normal (A) Excretory function (B) Detoxification function (C) Metabolic function (D) Circulatory function
Description : Insulin is a protein which controls (A) Blood clotting (B) Metabolic pathway (C) Digestion (D) Kreb’s cycle
Description : Ammonia is excreted as ammonium salts during metabolic acidosis but the majority is excreted as (A) Phosphates (B) Creatine (C) Uric acid (D) Urea
Description : The essential amino acids (A) Must be supplied in the diet because the organism has lost the capacity to aminate the corresponding ketoacids (B) Must be supplied in the diet because the ... amino acids which cannot be synthesized by the organism at a rate adequate to meet metabolic requirements
Description : In metabolic point of view, amino acids are classified as (A) Glycogenic (B) Ketogenic (C) Glycogenic or Ketogenic (D) All of these
Description : The following metabolic abnormalities occur in Diabetes mellitus except (A) Increased plasma FFA (B) Increased pyruvate carboxylase activate (C) Decreased lipogenesis (D) Decreased gluconeogenesis
Last Answer : B
Description : Most of the metabolic pathways are either anabolic or catabolic. Which of the following pathways is considered as “amphibolic” in nature? (A) Glycogenesis (B) Glycolytic pathway (C) Lipolysis (D) TCA cycle
Last Answer : D
Description : Metabolic alkalosis is characteristically found in which of the following? 1) An infusion of sodium chloride 2) Ileostomy 3) Mineralocorticoid deficiency 4) Pyloric stenosis 5) Salicylate poisoning
Last Answer : Answers-4 Pyloric stenosis is associated with vomiting and the loss of stomach content - hence a metabolic alkalosis. Mineralocorticoid excess (Conn's syndrome) is associated with a metabolic alkalosis. ... produce a metabolic acidosis. A sodium chloride infusion is neutral and does not alter pH.
Description : A 73 year old male presented with an acute attack of gout in his left knee. What is the most likely underlying metabolic cause? 1) decreased renal excretion of uric acid 2) endogenous overproduction of uric acid 3) excessive dietary purine intake 4) lactic acidosis 5) starvation
Last Answer : Answers-1 The aetiology of gout can broadly be divided into cases where there is underexcretion of urate via the kidney (90%) or endogenous overproduction of uric acid (10%) although in practical ... diuretic use. Excessive dietary intake of purines is unlikely to be the main cause in this case.